Chapter 43 Chapter 43 Studio.

Behind the wall, it's not a place you'd imagine. No complicated code, no high-end firewalls.

Just a normal room.

The style is created according to the previous fire studio.

After editing the necessary data, Tao Ying closed her eyes, lay back in her chair, and turned around. She casually picked up the virtual iced coffee on the table, brought it to her lips, and took a sip.

“Oh, the taste is quite authentic.”

Tao Ying looked around the studio nostalgically.

The white walls are covered with misprinted posters of Space Ghost - Irina is a loyal fan of this series. I heard that she later invested in the filming of several subsequent Space Ghost films. Although they were all bad movies, for some reason, the fan community loved them very much.

The floors were easy to clean but ugly, and even that noxious furniture smell was still there.

Tao Ying glanced down at the potted plants at her workstation. They supposedly purified the air, but in reality, the effect was purely psychological. She pinched the leaves, plucked off a yellow one, and held it against the sunlight outside the window.

The sunlight penetrated through the leaves and entered Tao Ying's deep, black pupils.

Even the sunlight seems so familiar, as if nothing has changed.

Tao Ying curled up the corners of her mouth and fell into memories.

Irina rented the studio in Area B at a very cheap price.

Small.

Just like what fire looked like before it was born.

When the first trailer came out, no one was optimistic about the game and thought it was a fantasy.

Most mecha games in the past focused more on gameplay, while the mecha driving experience was more based on inherent data and was stereotyped.

Spark aims to create a game that is brimming with authenticity, based on data from real-world mechas. While it's more of a game than a battlefield simulation, it's also a true game.

It seems like an interesting concept to the layman, but it is too difficult to actually do it.

Think about it from another angle. If it is really that easy to do and there is a market, the major mecha manufacturers would have plenty of mature mecha data. Wouldn't they have developed it long ago? Why would it be the turn of a group of students like them to make money from it?

So when Irina first proposed this concept, although Tao Ying was very interested, she did not agree directly.

To be precise, Tao Ying was in the library at that time, looking at the registration form for the 'Interstellar Mecha System Design Competition' in her hand without even raising her head.

"I'm too busy to do it."

Irina held the application form in her hand and said persistently, "Then just try it out casually for now, and we'll see what the finished product looks like when the time comes."

Tao Ying: "Why do you want to make this game?"

“To make money.”

Tao Ying paused with her pen and finally looked up. "Irina... I remember you were studying finance, right? You know how long it will take to recoup this investment. That excuse won't convince me."

Irina took out her business plan, the folder looked very thin.

Tao Ying hesitated and opened it. There was only a piece of paper and a line of words inside.

——We in the Haitai family are not short of money.

At that time, the still naive Tao·Underage College Student·Ying closed the plan with an expressionless face, and then said succinctly and incomprehensibly: "Are you sick?"

After going through so much discussion, he even spent a long while talking seriously about the concept of the game.

Just to tease her in the end?

"I'm not sick, I'm serious," Irina knocked on the table, "I know you're short of money."

"..." Tao Ying looked up indifferently.

Irina felt uncomfortable under her gaze and admitted defeat, "I didn't deliberately investigate you. Well, I did, but I couldn't find anything. It's just that everyone in your college said you were short of money."

"Isn't this great? You're short of money, I'm rich, let's work together."

Several million star coins suddenly appeared in Tao Ying's account.

This amount of money was quite a lot for her at that time.

But Tao Ying's face remained cold: "I'll think about it after the game is over."

Then Irina hurriedly rented a studio and gave Tao Ying a backup key.

Apparently, it was taken as her consent.

…

Tao Ying swore that she was just doing it casually at first.

But later on, it attracted a lot of mecha enthusiasts, and with the "fame" of Tao Ying and Irina at Leimen University, the number of people in the team gradually increased to more than a dozen... or even hundreds.

Tao Ying spent more and more time in the studio and started working overtime every day.

Irina started: "Tao Ying, come to the studio and write some code! You can get a perfect grade in the mecha programming class with your eyes closed, so why are you taking any class?"

Irina later: "...why don't you take a break?"

Later: "I beg you to take a break and don't die in my studio."

Before the game went online, Irina said, "Tao Ying, how many days ago was the last time you slept? Workaholic, get to bed! Where are my sleeping pills? Where did I put them? Aphrodisiacs! Sedatives! Pour them all into her mouth! Why is she still awake? Housekeeper, bring me a pillow! I'm going to strangle this workaholic!"

Irina, clutching the studio's life-size space ghost standee, began to lose her mind. Tao Ying looked up from her laptop, her eyes filled with pulsing codes.

I didn't hear what Irina said at all.

Why was this person interrupting her while she was writing programs?

Tao Ying spoke frankly and asked, "Are you sick?"

Irina: “…”

The other members of the studio worked together and ordered twenty glasses of iced coffee for Tao Ying, regardless of her life or death.

"Come on, Chief Programmer." "It's all up to you."

"I don't know how it happened, but the bug we wrote seems to work. It's amazing."

"Don't die, Chief Programmer."

"Come on." "Everyone should live well until the day the game is launched."

Everyone had dark circles under their eyes and looked exhausted, as if they were about to experience cyber ascension at any moment.

But there was a glint of hope in his eyes for the game to be launched.

Later, "Spark" did not disappoint them.

After the server opened, players from all over the StarCraft poured in, ushering in an unprecedented number of players. Tao Ying expanded the server several times, but it was still full.

Everyone knows "Spark", and it can be seen in the streets and alleys. It is played in primary and secondary schools, not to mention universities. Even military academy students have a copy of the game for extracurricular training.

I even heard that some military personnel would refer to internal simulation information.

Because of this game, many people tried the holographic game cabin for the first time.

The sales rate of gaming cabins has increased significantly. I heard that some models of gaming cabins have even been out of stock for several years because they are well optimized for Fire.

The game is popular all over the world.

The team made a lot of money.

All in all, it was an interesting time.

Tao Ying held her face in her hands and glanced at the camera in the studio with a nostalgic look, flipping through the group photos one by one.

More than a decade has passed, and the game life of "Spark" has reached the end, and the income can probably only barely support its operation.

But I don’t know why, the server has not been shut down yet.

"I wonder how that rich man is doing now." Tao Ying murmured.

But with Haitai Technology backing it, it can't be too bad... right?

…

[Code changes completed. Hot deploy in progress.]

【Deployment completed, waiting for cache loading. 】

【Cache loading completed.】

Tao Ying came back to her senses and remembered the purpose of her coming in.

She wanted to change the lower limit of physical fitness to F.

The lowest physique setting in the game can only be set to E, so in order to make the training more realistic, of course some slight modifications are needed.

But after going through so much trouble to hack into the first-level firewall and then changing it like this... If Irina found out, she would definitely scold her in the president's office.

Tao Ying laughed out loud.

They are both sick, otherwise how can they be friends?

…

Open the door and leave the studio of memories.

Ripples appeared on the wall, and after a moment of flashing blue light, they gradually calmed down. Tao Ying walked out from the ripples as if nothing had happened.

Then he sat there, rested, and waited for his teammates to finish exploring the starship.

News came from the team channel that three teammates seemed to have found rewards inside the starship.

But they were all Spark coins or equipment, nothing special to gain.

Tao Ying sent a message to remind: "Why don't you look carefully in the cockpit trash can?"

Sure enough, not long after, the teammates excitedly slid down the ropes from the high-hanging starship.

"I found the log fragment!" This is Cat Core.

"There was food in the trash can, with something like 'Good Friend Pie' written on it. Unfortunately, it broke when touched and is inedible." This is Lin Biege.

"What a beautiful and ancient industrial design, I drew it very well." This is Nan Gua.

Lin Biege and Nan Gua were excited for a while, but then they remembered they still had classes, so they sent an applause emoji and logged off.

Maohe sent the navigation log to the research group, and everyone in the group was shocked.

"Found another fragment? What kind of luck do you have?"

"Is this the copy of the Hot Abyss Labyrinth? Damn it, I regret it. I should have teamed up with S. If I had known earlier, I would have gone to take a look even if I had escaped the small test."

"Teacher S, please private message me next time you have a dungeon, thank you."

"Teacher S, please private message me +1."

Maohe is also busy, so I'll go offline first.

After a day of diligent classes at the military academy, Maohe came online again and saw that Tao Ying seemed to be climbing the ladder.

Maohe clicked on player S's user information panel and a window popped up.

User online time today: 15 hours.

Cat Core was shocked and asked in private: "Is Teacher S not teaching?"

I chatted with Lin Bigg and the others before, and it seemed that the members of the Space Ghost Team were all college students. They seemed to live together and take the same courses. How come those two were in class frequently, while Teacher S was online for 15 hours.

Tao Ying said something nonsense: "Because I'm addicted to the Internet."

"What are you doing alone? Do you want to form a team?"

"Not today, let's just play the ladder for now."

Ladder leaderboard? Is this a daily climb?

Mao He looked at Tao Ying's game records curiously...

Uh, thirty-six games, only one win.

Aren't the weapons upgraded? They can even take out the giant lava worm, so why are they losing so badly in a 1v1 novice match?

Mao He was completely confused.

But Maohe instantly discovered another thing wrong.

Thirty-six games. Thirty-six games?

Cat Core leans back.

Did Teacher S only start climbing the leaderboard after they logged off today? She'd already played thirty-six games in just a few hours?

On average, less than ten minutes per show?

Maohe looked at the battle time again and found that the next game started almost seamlessly after the previous one ended.

This... this, although it is a game, it also consumes mental energy.

Is there no limit to Teacher S’s mental strength?

It was already twelve o'clock in the morning when Tao Ying climbed out of the game cabin.

I feel a little tired physically, but my spirits are still good.

I thought about going to the kitchen to find something to eat, but Xiaoye took out a bottle of nutrient solution from his chest and handed it to me, saying that sleeping immediately after eating was bad for the stomach.

"Hmm?" Tao Ying took it. It was her favorite catnip flavor.

"Did you order this? This is hard to buy." There are very few stocks left, so you have to grab them.

Xiao Ye tilted her head: "Don't you like it?"

"I like it very much." Tao Ying finished it in one gulp.

Few people know that she likes this, so I don’t know how she bought it.

Well, it's probably a coincidence.

Lin Biege and Nan Gua were sitting on the first floor, watching the Spark Science series. It seemed that they were on a mystery special today, and they said it was very interesting and insisted on dragging Tao Ying along.

The two chattered away until they felt sleepy and fell asleep in the living room. Tao Ying called out for a long time, but couldn't wake him up. She wanted to ask the smart housekeeper for help, but Xiaoye seemed to have run out of battery again and was charging in the utility room.

Tao Ying could only get a blanket and cover her two teammates. Just as she was about to go back to the second floor to sleep, she suddenly received a call.

Tao Ying picked up the phone: "Oh, um, okay. I'm free tomorrow then."

Nan Gua was woken up, rubbed his eyes, sat up confusedly and asked, "What's going on?"

Xiaoying's voice sounded quite serious.

"Oh, nothing, just a minor issue," Tao Ying waved her hand, signaling her to continue sleeping. "The Star League staff said there's a problem with our registration materials and they need to resubmit them. I'll go to the registration office tomorrow to check."

...Nan Gua woke up instantly.

There is a problem with the league registration materials. This is no small problem!

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The author has something to say: Pass it on, Tao Ying likes catnip-flavored nutrient solution.